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Zorro

(16,375 posts)
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 09:25 AM Friday

I had a front-row seat to Pam Bondi's messy stint as attorney general

I still remember the night Pam Bondi called me, desperate for help.

It was a Saturday night in 2010, and Bondi was getting ready to go on national TV to join Geraldo Rivera for a discussion about a string of wrongful convictions in Florida.

Rivera knew that a discredited “expert” had already been exposed for using junk science and bogus testimony to improperly put three Brevard County men behind bars for decades and that the same fraudster was suspected of having done the same in other cases. So the TV host wanted to know whether any Florida official had the courage to reopen all the cases and see if others had been wrongfully convicted.

Bondi claimed she wanted to be that person. She was running for attorney general back then and told Rivera and his Fox News audience that if voters would just elect her, she would be a crusader for justice.

Only Bondi had a problem: She didn’t actually know much about the cases. So she called someone who did. Me.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2024/12/06/i-had-front-row-seat-pam-bondis-messy-stint-attorney-general-column/

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I had a front-row seat to Pam Bondi's messy stint as attorney general (Original Post) Zorro Friday OP
She will be an absolutely horrible boot licker taking illegal actions from her briber. lark Friday #1
Elect a clown expect a circus. maxsolomon Friday #2
K & R Thanks for posting! Good stuff ... FakeNoose Friday #3

lark

(24,280 posts)
1. She will be an absolutely horrible boot licker taking illegal actions from her briber.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 09:34 AM
Friday

She has zero morals and is a fascist thru and thru.

maxsolomon

(35,222 posts)
2. Elect a clown expect a circus.
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 12:26 PM
Friday

Bondi will be horrible, but this incoming Senate will approve her in a flash. And there's not a thing that can stop it.

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